Common Folk Using Common Sense

Yahoo, via Michelle Malkin, reminds us:

Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go home to die despite American pleas to show no mercy for the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people.
The White House declared it “deeply” regretted the Scottish decision as Abdel Baset al-Megrahi [...]

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January 25th marks Burns Night, the night of the Burns Supper, when the children of Scotland and their descendants and those who love them, gather as they have for a couple of hundred years, to celebrate the life and work of the poet Robert Burns (1759 – 1796), who helped establish vernacular Scots as a [...]

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From news.com.au:

The current National Geographic magazine reports that less than two per cent of the world’s population has natural red hair, created by a mutation in northern Europe thousands of years ago.
Global intermingling, which broadens the availability of possible partners, has reduced the chances of redheads meeting and producing little redheads of their own.
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From Scotsman.com:

Glasgow Airport had no armed police on duty when an attempted terrorist attack was launched last Saturday, Strathclyde Police admitted yesterday.
While both Aberdeen and Edinburgh airports had armed officers present following the attempted bombings in London, Glasgow, Scotland’s busiest airport, was left unprotected.
Last night, a spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police explained that a mobile [...]

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The break-up of the United Kingdom became a stark possibility as thousands of English and Scottish voters demanded home rule.

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For the 34th consecutive year, thousands of Scots from around the world will don their family tartans and gather to greet old friends and make new ones too at The Stone Mountain Highland Games.

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For the 34th consecutive year, thousands of Scots from around the world will don their family tartans and gather to greet old friends and make new ones too at The Stone Mountain Highland Games.

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The damn news has been so depressing recently I’ve started crawling the internet looking for either good news, or bad news that’s funny. Please note that I’m on legally perscribed daily narcotics so any attempt at humor is suspect.

From my home country of Scotland (so it’s OK if I laugh at them), via the [...]

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The 12 “cardinal flavors”, identified by a Scottish academic, to tickle the tastebuds of single malt scotch connoisseurs around the world.

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The Declaration of Arbroath, the Scottish Declaration of Independence, was signed on April 6, 1320. One day Scotland will be a free nation again.

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